Sure, Blake Griffin dunks all the time, over human beings and four-cylinder engines.

This one, in the third quarter of the Clippers’ dismissive 112-100 handling of Oklahoma City, was Griffin’s White Album, his Starry Night. It unleashed a Twitter deluge from athletic colleagues from LeBron James to Bubba Watson.

The way Griffin lifted off against Kendrick Perkins, for a one-handed tomahawk that he launched from the top of the restricted area, even brought a message from Sir Isaac Newton, promising he would reconsider.

And the Staples Center videoboard replayed The Dunk seven times in the next minute, sometimes while the Clippers were scoring more points.

“It was amazing,” said Chris Paul, who got Griffin the ball, “but I got excited when he converted the free throw.”

“CP threw me a great pass off the pick and roll and I just followed it up,” Griffin said.

But that was just the signature of this game, not the story. The story was that the Clippers were far better than the Thunder, who carry the league’s best record and yet were bystanders after the middle of the second quarter.

If Oklahoma City has all this room to improve, then how about the Clippers, who have been together barely a month?

If the Clippers can beat Denver on the road Sunday and come home and look this good Monday, just what is beyond their grasp?

The Thunder not only had the younger legs, it had been lounging in Santa Monica since Saturday afternoon. Which, perhaps, was an energy drain in itself.

Whatever the reason, the Clippers were more cohesive and diligent. They withstood a frontal attack by Russell Westbrook, who was intent on blasting away at Chris Paul whether it was advisable or not. They were able to work around an off half by Griffin, who was bottled up by Serge Ibaka for a while.

They had five first-half steals, having scouted the looseness in Westbrook’s and Kevin Durant’s games.

And when the visitors were threatening to work their way back into it, the Clippers brought down the hammer — and the house — with a 12-0 run in the final 1:15 of the half. All the points came on 3-point shots by Caron Butler, Mo Williams and Chauncey Billups, set up by sloppy Thunder offense and the refreshing way the Clippers keep looking for each other.

Maybe this is who the Clippers are, or what they will be. Maybe this is what happens when Paul gets enough healthy time to figure out everybody else, and when backup big man Reggie Evans gets settled (63 rebounds in 191 minutes, coming in) and when Williams, so reliable when Paul was out, proves he deserves near-starter minutes every night.

As for the Thunder, this was the first NBA team to sweep a three-games-in-three-nights situation this season, and Durant and Westbrook are the most productive pair of teammates in the league.

“People know we’re good now,” said Scott Brooks, the elfin Thunder coach who, 25 years ago, christened the Bren Center at UC Irvine. “If you know you’re a good team and if you don’t go out and prove it, it doesn’t mean anything. We go out to prove it every night.”

Well, almost every night. The Thunder had lost by 13 to Dallas, by 10 at home to Portland, and by three, unaccountably, at Washington.

“We have to work on some things,” Brooks said. “We need to continue to develop a better passing mentality. We have athletic players who can get their shots, and I think we’ve done a better job making each other better, even though the assists don’t show it.

“Kevin’s always a willing passer, but now he’s able to see the picture clearer and quicker.”

Nevertheless, the Thunder has fewer assists than their opponents, which might be unprecedented for a 16-3 team on any level, and it only has 33 more assists than turnovers.

The Thunder will not be playing in June if it continues to depend on alternating riffs by Westbrook and Durant.

For one thing, it needs to take fuller advantage of James Harden, who ranks sixth in the NBA in free throw attempts per game. That puts him ahead of Dwayne Wade and Derrick Rose. Imagine if he got their minutes, or occasionally got the ball from Durant or Westbrook.

Harden is universally described as “crafty” and “clever” these days. He was merely dominating when he led Artesia to CIF and state championships, and then was the Pac-10 Player of the Year at Arizona State.

“But even back then we thought he had an old-school game,” Brooks said. “He’s got a great change of pace. He’s retro, he’s got the beard. I think the beard draws two fouls a game.”

Harden laughed at that. “I’ve even trimmed it a little bit, but nobody notices,” he said.

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